Meghalaya’s Farmers Cooperative Is Exporting Organic Turmeric to the EU Without Any Government Help
In a small drying yard in Laskein block, West Jaintia Hills, I watched a woman named Rikynti Suchiang spread freshly boiled turmeric rhizomes across bamboo mats, the late-March sun turning each finger-shaped piece into something almost golden enough to be currency. She told me her cooperative had shipped 3.2 tonnes of organic Lakadong turmeric to … Read more